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Russia's Coming Financial CrashWASHINGTON, DC – Today, the whole world is being hit by a tremendous financial crisis, but Russia is facing a perfect storm.
This alludes to an ancient episode in which soldiers from the warring states of Wu and Yue found themselves on the same boat on a river in a storm and agreed to put down their arms to make a common passage.
Indeed, timely evacuations in the face of accurately forecasted major storm systems have enabled the Philippines and India to save thousands of lives just in the last year.
This helped many of them weather the recent storm, but it also contributed to global payments imbalances.
Obama ran right into a perfect storm of the worst aspects of American democracy: red-state provincialism and ignorance, fearful conservatism, Republican Party obstructionism and even some Democratic Party dissidence.
And when the perfect storm hit in 2015, with US interest rates climbing while commodity prices fell, China had to crank up credit creation once more.
The Indian and Indonesian currencies have been weathering the storm quite well, but both fell steeply last year.
The Israeli public woke up to a justified storm of global outrage.
She and her party, the Christian Democratic Union, experienced a backlash in polls and state elections after the summer of 2015, but that storm has blown over.
All the ingredients seem to be in place for a long and powerful perfect storm of economic decline and social unrest.
However, the only scientific study showing any such thing indicates that four polar bears drowned because of a storm.
When college student Sun Zhigang was beaten to death by the police in the southern city of Guangzhou this spring, for example, it inspired a storm of online calls for "weiquan," and provoked debates over the "custody and repatriation system."
With unprecedented wind speeds of 315 kilometers (196 miles) per hour, the storm killed 6,300 people, left four million homeless, and caused more than $2 billion of damage.
One is the “perfect storm” position: there were very many failures, misperceptions, informational asymmetries, and complexities, as well as much repugnant behavior, but it never occurred to market participants, regulators, or academics that the aggregate effect would be a near-collapse of the system.
If Detroit’s Big Three go bankrupt, the perfect storm really will have arrived with a collapse in both the real economy and the financial sector.
As the planet warms, and rain and storm patterns change dramatically, many species will find themselves in climate zones that no longer support their survival.
The Saudi strategy for dealing with the outcry over Khashoggi’s murder is clear: hunker down and weather the storm.
NEW YORK – The winner of America’s presidential election will inherit a perfect storm of problems, both economic and international.
Europe should now use the calm between the storm fronts to rethink the European currency union from the ground up.
The movie invites viewers to conclude that global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, with Gore claiming that the warm Caribbean waters made the storm stronger.
Given this history, and the storm of calls for reform in the Arab world, it is a tragic irony that America and the West have paid so little attention to the terrestrial Arab monopoly television channels.
Call this the “safe-haven curse”: as long as the US remains the safest port in any storm, it faces no immediate pressure to address its weaknesses.
With that, China’s exchange-rate storm subsided, and a two-way fluctuation range for the renminbi-dollar exchange rate was established, an important step toward a market-based exchange rate regime.
The storm was so powerful that its winds even shook parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat.
But natural systems can mitigate them: wetlands act as sponges that reduce flooding and delay the onset of droughts; and mangroves, salt marshes, and coral reefs all act as buffers that protect against storm surges.
They have also nurtured industries in line with their comparative advantage, which has helped them weather the storm.
He has inspired thousands of demonstrators, many from his power base in the country’s south, to storm and occupy government buildings with the aim of unseating Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Both the San Francisco Bay Area and Boston are strengthening natural barriers to absorb and disperse storm surges.
But her list of the potential abuses of the connected world contained nothing similar to the WikiLeaks storm.
That storm will leave behind no trace of understanding if it is assessed in isolation, rather than as part of a broader pattern.
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